Eva Cantoni

Eva Cantoni (born 1970) is a Swiss statistician whose research focuses on robust statistics and generalized linear models, with applications including housing market prediction, health care, and livestock production. She is a professor at the University of Geneva, in the Geneva School of Economics and Management,[1] and president of the Swiss Federal Statistics Committee.[2]

Education and career

Cantoni was born in 1970, and received a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1999 from the University of Geneva.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Resistant Techniques for Nonparametric Regression, Generalized Linear and Additive Models, was supervised by Elvezio Ronchetti.[4]

She became an associate professor at the University of Geneva in 2011, and full professor in 2019. She was vice-dean of the faculty of economy and management from 2020 to 2023,[3] and became president of the Swiss Federal Statistics Committee in 2024.[2]

Book

Cantoni is a coauthor of the book Robust Methods in Biostatistics (with Stephane Heritier, Samuel Copt, and Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser, Wiley, 2009).[5]

Recognition

In 2025, the Geneva School of Economics and Management gave Cantoni their inaugural GSEM Teaching Engagement Award.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Eva Cantoni", Faculty & Research, Geneva School of Economics and Management, retrieved 2025-04-02
  2. ^ a b Trois questions à la Présidente de la Commission de la statistique fédérale, Madame Eva Cantoni (in French), Federal Statistics Committee, 2 April 2024, retrieved 2025-04-02
  3. ^ a b "Cantoni, Eva", Élites suisses (in French), University of Lausanne, retrieved 2025-04-02
  4. ^ Eva Cantoni at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Reviews of Robust Methods in Biostatistics:
    • Moore, Dirk F. (March 2010), Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 20 (2): 482–484, doi:10.1080/10543400903572852, S2CID 124565528{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Müller, Christine (November 2010), Biometrical Journal, 53 (1): 159–160, doi:10.1002/bimj.201000194{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Staudte, Robert; Prendergast, Luke (December 2011), Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics, 53 (4): 483–486, doi:10.1111/j.1467-842x.2011.00630.x{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. ^ Eva Cantoni and Giuseppe Ugazio recognized for the quality of their teaching, Geneva School of Economics and Management, 24 March 2025, retrieved 2025-04-02
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